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Whenever I connect my digital still camera to any USB port it does not appear on the desktop, but jumps straight to iphoto. Even after quiting iphoto I can't find it enywhere in the computer. Everything else connected through USB seems to appear on the desktop. I'm working on a …

Okay so here's how it's happened. With an old 700mhz CPU, a MSI ms-6309 mobo, some 20gig HDD and about 380mb of ram, I cracked her open and installed a new video card. Oh and the "old" (old being the one before the one I'm installing) card was some 16mb …

Does anyone have the firmware for Seagate 36GB ST336704LCV drives to make them Simbios compatible and revert back to factory default from EMC firmware?

I have new hard drive when i put windows xp cd in it only comes up with ibm secure data disposal utility 2.0 ibm remote deployment manager 4.1 date time of execution 10/27/05 12.30.39 comand executed a:\scrub3.exe/d=all/1=1 return code....................................0 please help i dont know to much about computersi thought xp …

COMPUTER - COLD COUGH SNEEZING....!!!! Dear friends A silly problem as it may appear to u people but really really a big problem for me. The fact is that I have to sit at my home computer in my room whole day (yes i am going unemployed these days) and …

Hey guys. For christmas i am getting a new gfx card, and am certainly going to the top end of the market! Just wondering which of the two cards above i should purchase? What are the pros/cons of each? Which is better (if you could, plz give evidence; ie: benchmarks, …

Hrm.. I made the mistake of purchasing a Northgate industries athlon 1.8 with a foxconn mobo about a year ago (convenient how they always die after warranty eh?)... and I've had nothing but trouble since then, and now it's progressed to the point of no return. Previously, the machine would …

Ok I have a Dell Dimension 4500S, just over 3 years old, which consists of: 2.0 P4 256MB DDR RAM – upgradeable to 1Gb (1 free slot) 40Gb IDE Hard Drive Its been having a hard time recently having connected to a wireless network and dealing with internet & anti-virus …

:mad: Building my 2nd system for mother. Parts as follows: Case Antec SLK1650 w/ Antec 350w ps MB Epox 8kda3i RAM Crucial 2 x 256mb Graphic card- Asus V9400-x 64MB ddr Processor- AMD Sempron64 2800+ RTL Problem: Upon install of only above components, at power-up, fans turn for only split …

I have just been given two Dell Optiflex GX1's from a company that just replaced all of their systems. I am contemplating loading 98SE on them, just for the kids to get "computer familiar". Keeping in mind, they will NOT have internet access. As it stands right now, the computer …

Hi again, I'm awaiting a laptop I 'won' off eBay, looking at online info, it appears with the supplied GeForce4 420 Go processing, you can adjust beyond the limits of the built in XGA 15"... This laptop offers S-video out, however a bit in the dark on whether this permits …

i just got an ATI radeon 9200 Se graphics card and i wanna know some things... 1. when u place it in the computer slot, is that all? 2. the cable that came with it does not fit the outlet on the plug itself!!?? wtf? i'd appreciate the help guys..thx

I am building a new computer and it only has pcie. I have the vid card set but now will need a good capture device for video. I do video editing and capture from vcr. I guess I would like it to be a tv tuner also just for the …

how do i determine whether my computer has pci or pci express

HI, I found that my computer run slow,sometimes hang when i open many program.the screen looks slowly. someone suggest me to upgrade my memory.currently my memory is 128MB.I found that DELL 4500S use PC2100 DDR. if i want to upgrade it,am i need to buy the same PC2100.can i use …

I have a Epson Stulus C63 Color printer, The printer works fine, print quality is gud, but one color doesn't come out i.e., yellow. I used maintenance option to clean the head but it doesnt work, i tried to open the printer succeed but couldn't remove the head I even …

I'm looking to (within a few months hopefully) buy me a (semi)professional photoprinter. At the moment the Epson R800 looks very promising but I'm a bit wary of spending some €350 on a device I've never seen in action and noone around here has it in stock to demo. Does …

Going to buy a new computer and just wanted to know if its possible to have a sata hard drive and a slave ide hard drive in the same system along with a cdrom..... thanks in advance for any replies. Ron

I try to boot my Athlon 64 prossesor on my Chaintech motherboard. It gets stuck on the Chaintech splash screen. It does not list the drives nor does it boot into windows. I can not get into CMOS either.

Can someone plz help me with my computer. I have a problem, i have 2 drives, and one is a DVD-RAM/RW drive and another is a CD-RW/R drive. The problem is that when windows starts it doesnt show them in "My Computer" and when i look at the BIOS screen …

I Have A Dell Dimension 4600 And It's About 2 Years Old And We've Never Done Anything To It, Like Installing New Memory Or Anything. I Was On It One Day Just Checking Up On My Forum When It Started Making These Weird Clicking Noises, And It Wouldnt Stop So …

I recently bought some RAM that's CAS 3. The (older) BIOS on my motherboard only supports settings for CAS 2 and CAS 2.5 (as I found-out AFTER I had bought the new RAM ... sheesh.) :o I'm having goofy, inconsistant problems installing XP on this system, and thought this might …

I recently had a brief back and forth with nizzy1115 about IDE channel sharing and how to set up drives on the channels for maximum performance. Since there isn't a "right answer", I was curious what everyone's take was. My opinion is that harddrives are used more often than optical …

For servers is there any program that monitors the CPU temp & if it goes over a certain temp it will automatically alert you by sending you an email???

Check here to see if your Dell notebook is affected by the AC adapter recall: [url]http://pchw-os.web.boeing.com/hw/portable/issues/default.htm[/url]

Hello, I have a big problem and I hope somebody can help me. You guys are going to hate me for 2 reasons 1. newbie jumping in with a question 2. I tweaked my system without experience. I was trying to find a way to control my video card fan …

Grrr, alright so I found this $90 custom built PC on eBay, 600MHz AMD Athlon K-6 processor, 128MB RAN, NIC, CD-ROM drive and a now 400GB HD (thank you dynamic drive overlay). Now then, to get to the problem. The issue is that this is a custom made PC, the …

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I recently connected a crt monitor to an old rig. It works fine up till after the windows boot screen (ie. logon)...where it loses its picture and is black. Turning it on then off will make a big "No Signal" Show up! I can get into the PC however when …

Hello, I have a 120gig western digital external hard drive. I currently have about 40 gigs of data on the hard drive, but when I look at the properties it shows me only having 2 gigs of space left. I'm not sure what is wrong, and it will not let …

my laptop hardrive is now an external component that connects with a USB port,. i installed the laptop harddrive externally onto my desktop. (i just plug the usb into the front of the desktop..) now i can access my files from the old harddrive through my desktop through windows explorer …

Any good LCD monitors that are farily cheap. I want to upgrade to a flat screen :) If you know of any good ones, let me know

Any reccomendations? right now i have an NVIDIA 6200 TC. But it leads to BSODS (nv4_disp). So i am thinking about upgrading. I do do gaming such as BF2 so it does need to be able to handle the 'new stuff' Thanks -T

I am desperate... I have just transfered data from a Hard Drive (HD1) to another one (HD2). So at the end HD1 is empty and HD2 is full. Then the accident happen: Crash of HD2. Impossible to read it, Windows won't even start when HD2 is plugged. Then I thought: …

Ok I am sure this is going to stir the pot up a bit but I am looking to purchase a PDA. I have dealt with many in the past as I am in the IT industry but believe it or not I have never actually OWNED one. I am …

I am still having the problem. I have run winsockfix, registry fix, and sfc. I have unistalled and reinstalled IE6sp1. I checkfor the msvcrt.dll file and there are two occurances. I renamed one. It won't let me rename the one in Windows\System, it says that Windows was using it. I …

I have a GE wireless keyboard and mouse that has been working fine. I started to have intermittent problems with the mouse and decided to clean the ball area. I opened the mouse and cleaned the pad material off of the rollers and reassembled the mouse. Now the mouse will …

My wifes office bought one of those all in one units. It refused to install the driver without upgrading Internet Explorer AND having full access to the internet. Never again will I buy another HP product.... I locked the access once the driver was installed and I used a tool …

I watched an E3 video on the PS3. It has been a long time since I have been so impressed. The Cell processor looks awesome. I wonder how long it will take desktop CPUs to catch up to it. Have any of you seen the video or any of the …

Greetings, I built my own computer and add a nice new thing every year or so. So i decided on a new case. So basically i unplugged everything. Made sure I was static free when unmounting my motherboard...moved it into my new case...remounted...reconnected all cables just as they were...and PCI …

Hello I don’t know why on earth the total memory size not showing correctly, I have 4 modules 256 each. My motherboard book “Abit bx6-rev.2

My brother flashed his BIOS and now the computer won't start. His motherboard is an Abit AV8, and the flash utility was downloaded from the official site, and the official instructions were followed. There were no errors, and everything seemed to have worked fine, until he tried to start the …

I need to upgrade my system if possible to run Sims 2, which requires as a minimum to run on xp, with a 800 Mhtz Processor, 256ram, 32mb tgl Video card.(Whats this?) My system is on XP, with AMD Duron Processor 600Mhtz, 320 ram. Cannot find any refernce to a …

Hi there. I have a Gforce fx 5200 256mb, it has ports for vga, dvi and s-video. i'm currently using the vga and dvi ports in a dualview configuration. but i also want to use the tv as a third output for movies, but it wont let me use more …

My laptop died Compaq Presario 2500. Said I needed a new motherboard. Not doing that. Bought a new gateway and love it so far. My question is how or if I can transfer stuff off old hard drive to new laptop. Anyone know. Thanks a bunch!

Here we go,These BSOD error happen only when playing games, like Land Warrior, Sims, RCT3 are the main ones played here.But I doesnt happen with GTA Liberty and several others. Some of my stop errors have device drivers listed, others have out of memory,or driver not equal to whql, and …

To upgrade your processor? I saw them selling just processors at new egg, but how would I go about installing it?

I try to boot my Athlon 64 prossesor on my Chaintech motherboard and it gets stuck on the Chaintech splash screen. It does not list the drives nor does it boot into windows. I can not get into CMOS. Can someone help me.

Hello, Good day! How can I format an 80GB hard disk as fat32 and install winxp? Thanks!

Hello everyone! I recently bought a PC from Planet Computors for $2500 dollars. My old rig was a really bad eMachines. I was looking at the new Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX 512 MB, I was just like .. wow ... if I had the money. So I know that my …